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What is
JavaScript?

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

What is
PHP?

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

What is
Erlang?

Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

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JavaScript gets a bad rep, quite undeservedly so in my opinion. Today, JS is closer to functional languages than to the traditional-OO languages, and when used as such provides a great development experience. The pace of development is just picking up with transpilers like Babel making future advanced language features available to the masses today. At Cloudcraft.co, we write 100% of both the front-end (with React) and the backend (with Node.js) in Javascript, using the latest ES6 and even some ES7 features. This is not your grandfather's Javascript!

This GNU/GPL licensed Javascript library allows you to draw complex organizational charts that can't be drawn using Google's tool or equivalents. Orgchart structures are specified with JSON and can be generated on-the-fly by server-side scripts and databases. Events can be attached to clicks over the boxes. Multiple options can be defined; look at the repo for examples. This 1300-code-lines software component with contributors from 8 countries (and others for which I have to integrate their works) appears in the first page of Google Search results when searching for "Javascript Organizational Chart Library".

Almost the entire app was written in Javascript, with JSON-based configuration and data storage. The following components were written and/or configured with Javascript:

Most server-side scripts, all unit tests, all build tools, etc. were driven by NodeJS.

ExpressJS served as the 'backend' server framework.

MongoDB (which stores essential JSON) was the main database.

MongooseJS was used as the main ORM for communicating with the database, with KnexJS used for certain edge cases.

MochaJS, ChaiJS, and ExpectJS were used for unit testing.

Frontend builds were done with Gulp and Webpack.

Package management was done primarily with npm - with a few exceptions that required the use of Bower (also configured with JSON).

"Templating" was done with Javascript dialect JSX.

The frontend was build primarily with ReactJS (as the View) and Redux (as the Controller / Store / frontend model).

Configuration was done with json files.

The only notable exceptions were the use of SCSS (augmented by Compass) for styling, Bash for a few basic 'system chores' and CLI utilities required for development of the app (most notably git and heroku's CLI interface), and a bit of custom SQL for locations where the ORM extractions leaked (the app is DB-agnostic, but a bit of SQL was required to fill gaps in the ORMs when interfacing with Postgres).

For bells and whistles on the UI, and for making the game Whack-A-Mol. I purposely avoided jQuery or other 3rd party frameworks, as I was aiming to make a low overhead website system, rather than a complex web application like I make most of the time.

We use JavaScript to create eye-pleasing animations and dynamic content on our website and to create web-sockets and interactive sockets to enable live-features to create a unique way of interacting with our website.

i have a love and hate relationship with javascript. feels like no one knows what to do with it. the spaghetti code and callback nightmares... whew. although it is a mess its quite powerful when used correctly, thought it gets abused so much. i'm hoping my jump into clojure will lead me into clojurescript.

Used in all my roles. Love the npm ecosystem and the fast moving landscape. Experience with a variety of frameworks: angular, express, react, backbone, ember, jquery. I like building things from the ground up.

OutSystems provides a very simple to use AJAX mechanism. However, developers can also use JavaScript extensively to customize how users interact with their applications, to create client side custom validations and dynamic behaviors, or even to create custom, very specific, AJAX interactions. For example, each application can have an application-wide defined JavaScript file or set of files included in resources. Page-specific JavaScript can also be defined.

I have used it in my Front-end here and there but not XOR-ly for that purpose like using React or angular which I have not used because I'm bad at front end but I want to get better. I used to like web hacking and so there was heavy javascript use. IT WAS ALL ETHICAL I SWEAR!!

Well, we already have jQuery in our stack, so we couldn't not have plain JS too. We will write most JS to use jQuery methods, but to improve client-side performance we'll typically defer jQuery loading in. So if there's some client-side operations that need to happen before jQuery is available, then vanilla JS is how we'll typically handle that.

PrometheanTV relies on Javascript in many of the applications and services that make up the platform. Including both the front end and backend of the Broadcast Center Application, the Video Player Web Client SDK, and our product website.

To generate websites from data, and to serve my UI for defining that data. Also many small personal tools, such as icon converters (rather than bash scripts). PHP is my go-to tool for server side logic.

We use PHP as our main backend preprocessor. Being a well established language, it is supported by a large community as well as a dedicated team of developers. It is used for much heavier projects that do not require realtime processes as well as being used in a hybrid system alongside NodeJS.

PHP has been the backbone of what we've done at Visualsoft for years. We have lots of experienced people who have used it and know how to get the best out of it. It's come on leaps and bounds over recent years, and is the basis of pretty much everything we'll build with.